Street Scene (1929)

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Street Scene (1929)
by Elmer Rice

Act I

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Elmer Rice won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this play.

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STREET SCENE

Setting by Jo Mielziner

STREET SCENE

A Play in Three Acts

BY

ELMER L. RICE

SAMUEL FRENCH

Thos. R. Edwards Managing Director
NEW YORK LOS ANGELES

SAMUEL FRENCH Ltd. LONDON

1929

CAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that “STREET SCENE,” being fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America, the British Empire, including the Dominion of Canada, and all other countries of the Copyright Union, is sub- ject to a royalty. All rights, including profes- sional, amateur, motion pictures, recitation, public reading, radio broadcasting, and the rights of translation into foreign languages are strictly reserved. In its present form this play is dedicated to the reading public only. All inquiries regarding this play should be addressed to the author in care of Samuel French, 25 West 45th Street, New York, N.Y.

FIRST PRINTING MARCH, 1929

SECOND PRINTING APRIL, 1929

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y.

The cast of the play as originally presented at THE PLAYHOUSE, New York City, January 10th, 1929

WILLIAM A. BRADY, LTD.

PRESENTS

STREET SCENE

A Play in Three Acts
By ELMER RICE

DIRECTED BY THE AUTHOR
SETTING BY JO MIELZINER

CHARACTERS

(IN THE ORDER OF THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE)

Abraham Kaplan	Leo Bulgakov
Greta Fiorentino	Eleanor Wesselhoeft
Emma Jones	Beulah Bondi
Olga Olsen	Hilda Bruce
Willie Maurrant	Russell Griffin
Anna Maurrant	Mary Servoss
Daniel Buchanan	Conway Washburne
Frank Maurrant	Robert Kelly
George Jones	T. H. Manning
Steve Sankey	Joseph Bard
Agnes Cushing	Jane Corcoran
Carl Olsen	John M. Qualen
Shirley Kaplan	Anna Kostant
Filippo Fiorentino	George Humbert
Alice Simpson	Emily Hamill
Laura Hildebrand	Frederica Going
Mary Hildebrand	Eileen Smith
Charlie Hildebrand	Alexander Lewis
Samuel Kaplan	Horace Braham
Rose Maurrant	Erin O’Brien-Moore
Harry Easter	Glenn Coulter
Mae Jones	Millicent Green
Dick McHann	Joseph Lee
Vincent Jones	Matthew McHugh
Dr. John Wilson	John Crump
Officer Harry Murphy	Edward Downes
A Milkman	Ralph Willard
A Letter-carrier	Herbert Lindholm
An Ice-man	Samuel S. Bonnell
Two College Girls	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ Rose Lerner Astrid Alwynn
A Music Student	Mary Emerson
Marshall James Henry	Ellsworth Jones
Fred Cullen	Jean Sidney
An Old-clothes Man	Joe Cogert
An Interne	Samuel S. Bonnell
An Ambulance Driver	Anthony Pawley
A Furniture Mover	Ed. A. McHugh
Two Nurse-maids	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ Astrid Alwynn Nelly Neil
Policemen	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ Carl C. Milter John Kelly Anthony Pawley
Two Apartment Hunters	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ Frances F. Golden Otto Frederick
Passers-by . . . Ruth Randolph, Elizabeth Goodyear, Josephine Coghlan, Emily Hamill, Jean Sidney, Samuel S. Bonnell, Robert Mack, John Cambridge, Carl C. Milter, Anthony Pawley, Herbert Lindholm, Ed. A. McHugh, Ralph Willard, Otto Frederick, Benn Trivers

There is only one setting which is described in detail in the text.

The action takes place on an evening in June, and on the morning and afternoon of the following day.

Acts

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1967, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 57 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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